5 dead spouses: Police were warned

And a neighbor claims woman tried to hire her to kill her fourth husband Augusta Police Department via AP Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking in Augusta, Ga. Since her arrest, authorities in three states have started to re-examine the deaths of her first child and the four of the five men she married. ALBEMARLE, N.C. - A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than two decades ago. Former police officer Allen Lawrence told The Associated Press that he had warned North Carolina authorities repeatedly for two months before Harold Gentry was shot to death in 1986 that Betty Gentry — now Betty Neumar — wanted her husband dead. Neumar was desperate for money and wanted to collect on her husband's $20,000... [read full story]